We Need Glorious Experiences!

The Cross Is Real and So Is the Resurrection!

As we celebrate the Second Sunday of Lent, we meditate on the Transfiguration. Let us look at Peter. We read in St. Mark’s Gospel:

And Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Mark 9:5

Peter was having a glorious time and he wanted to hold on to the moment. He saw the Divine Nature of his Lord and Master, he also saw his heroes, Moses and Elijah. Everything made sense! Everything was beautiful!

Peter’s desire could not be fulfilled. Life does not work that way. He would have to come down from glory and experience the Passion, Cross, and Death of his Lord and Master, Jesus He would have to experience his personal failure in the denial of his relationship with the Savior, but he would also, along with John, the beloved disciple, experience the Empty Tomb! Jesus would destroy death!

May we look at Peter and see our road too. We will have glorious experiences with our Lord and Master. We will experience also terrible things in our life journey, and because we know our Lord is God, we will get through whatever we are experiencing because we know we have the Final Victory in the Lord Jesus.

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Come to Jesus and Be Healed!

We have reached the last Sunday before the Lenten Fast. Today in our Gospel section we meet Jesus our only hope. He is the one that can reconnect us to ourselves and to others.

We read in St. Mark’s Gospel:

And a leper came to him (Jesus) begging Him, and kneeling said to Him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, He stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I will;be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him and he was made clean.”

Mark 1:40-42.

The man seeking Jesus knew there was no other way in his world without the intervention of Jesus in his life. Jesus, in His part, came into this World to do exactly what this leper needed; to be a healer. Among many different reasons Jesus came to be with us, to be a healing presence in our lives.

As we conclude, for a while, these general Sunday topics, we leave with the knowledge that Jesus can and will heal our deepest concerns that keep us from living wholesome lives. Jesus can bring us to healing of what keeps us from Him and from one another.

Our requirement is to call on Jesus and to let Him take control!

Be healed!

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Be St. Joseph Like!

As Advent 2023 comes to a close, we have St. Joseph, the Foster Father of Jesus, the Husband of the Virgin Mary, as a role model. We see in the Gospel of St. Luke:

He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While he was there , the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her first born son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Luke 2:5-7.

The Christmas Story is so profound in its simplicity! We see St. Joseph providing for his young family the best that he could and the World received received her Savior!

Below is a little meditation that I hope will help us deal with struggles the way St. Joseph did so many years ago.

Have a blessed end of Advent 2023 and always remember to be a blessing!

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Happy Gaudete Sunday!

Choose Joy!

We are in the period of the last days in Advent 2023 and regardless of what we have been going through, we have a choice to find joy! Our model is St. John the Baptist who chose to live the joy of the Lord by preparing His way for us! However, will we follow John in his preparing the way of the Lord to everyone we encounter. The world still needs St. John the Baptist like individuals.

We find in St. John’s Gospel:

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him.
John 1:6-7

Let us keep this testimony simple! St. John the Baptist was very much himself! He was “Wholly Holy”, he belonged to God, and he never wavered from surrender to God’s will for himself.

Can we use these last days before Christmas to give the true testimony that Jesus is the Lord of our lives? We do that by bringing joy to everyone we encounter!

Be Christmas Joy!

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